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Democracy Across Borders: From DÍmos to DÍmoi

Today democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. In this provocative book, James Bohman argues that democracies face a period of renewal and transformation and that democracy itself needs redefinition according to a new transnational ideal. Democracy, he writes, should be rethought in the plural; it should no longer be understood as rule by the people (dÍmos), singular, with a specific territorial identification and connotation, but as rule by peoples (dÍmoi), across national boundaries. Bohman shows that this new conception of transnational democracy requires reexamination of such fundamental ideas as the people, the public, citizenship, human rights, and federalism, and he argues that it offers a feasible approach to realizing democracy in a globalized world.In his account, Bohman establishes the conceptual foundations of transnational democracy by examining in detail current theories of democracy beyond the nation-state (including those proposed by Rawls, Habermas, Held, and Dryzek) and offers a deliberative alternative. He considers the importance of communicative freedom in the transnational public sphere (including networked communication over the Internet), human rights as the normative basis of transnational democracy, and the European Union as a transnational polity. Finally, he examines the relationship between peace and democracy, concluding that peace requires democratization on interacting state and suprastate levels.

About the author (2007)

Frances R. Batzer, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine and an Attending Gynecologist at Pennsylvania Hospital. She is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American College of Surgeons, and the AIUM. She has published and coauthored numerous articles, abstracts, and medical textbooks and has lectured nationally and internationally on a variety of menopause and infertility issues. She is also the Director, Philadelphia Menopause Group and Clinton Endocrine Laboratory.